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Meaning of shoddy

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  shoddy
      adj 1: cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on
             the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist [syn:
             {cheapjack}, {shoddy}, {tawdry}]
      2: of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry-
         built houses" [syn: {jerry-built}, {shoddy}]
      3: designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or
         inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm";
         "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading
         similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are
         misleading"; "shoddy business practices" [syn: {deceptive},
         {misleading}, {shoddy}]
      n 1: reclaimed wool fiber

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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